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Here are a few things to keep in mind, look forward to, or keep busy with this week, from the weather (return to summer), to restaurant and beer week, to primaries, to dance, to design, to music festivals...

Troy Restaurant and Craft Beer Week

Primary day

Thursday is New York's primary day for state elections. Of course, the headline primary this time around is the Democratic primary for governor. But there's also a Democratic primary to fill what will be an open state Attorney General seat, as well as handful of primaries for other offices. Don't know what's on your ballot or where to vote? Check with your county board of election website or the state Board of Election.

Arts and sciences

Listening Creates an Opening
Wednesday-Saturday: The Mary Armentrout Dance Theater will be at EMPAC for a work called Listening Creates an Opening. It "focuses on how various types of technology impact our physical experience of moving through the world. By inviting the audience to move with the performers through a variety of environments, the performance explores what types of histories and contexts reveal themselves from a consciously embodied perspective." Wednesday-Saturday 5:30 pm -- $18 / $13 students and seniors

Corning Riverfront Bike Tour
Wednesday: The LocalXDesign series has a bike tour of Corning Riverfront Park. "This month we are taking you on a 3 mile bike adventure along the Hudson River. Join us for a public tour of the Corning Riverfront and learn how the experience of the park has changed overtime." (You can also sign up ahead of time to note you'd like to ride one of the CDTA bike share bikes.) Wednesday 5:30 pm -- free, registration requested

John Leland: Happiness Is a Choice You Make
Thursday: Journalist John Leland will be at UAlbany for a craft talk about this book Happiness Is a Choice You Make as part of the NYS Writers Institute visiting writers series. (A talk earlier in the day about the book is already full.) Thursday 4:15 pm, Alumni House Conference Room, uptown campus -- free

In the last Days of the City
Friday: The NYS Writers Institute will be showing In the Last Days of The City in Page Hall on the downtown UAlbany campus with commentary by writer/director Tamer El Said. "This film within a film is a haunting, lyrical chronicle of recent years in the Arab world, where revolutions seemed to spark hope for change and yield further instability in one stroke." Friday 7 pm -- free

Music festivals

Looking ahead to a big weekend for music festivals weekend...

PearlPalooza
Saturday: PearlPalooza -- the annual day of music on Pearl Street in downtown Albany organized by WEQX -- returns. This year's lineup: Superorganism, Caroline Rose, The Greeting Committee, Kitten, Good Fiction, and El Modernist. There's also yoga in the morning and a cornhole tournament. Saturday 11 am-8 pm -- free admission

Basilica Soundscape
Friday-Sunday: Basilica Hudson again hosts Basilica Soundscape, a music and art festival. This year's music lineup includes Grouper, Lightning Bolt, Haxan Cloak x Nick Zinner, and many others. (Sunday is a day of free events with art, music, and food.) Friday-Sunday various times -- $40 day music pass / $75 weekend pass

Music

Tuesday-Wednesday:Brubeck Brothers Quartet at Caffe Lena
"Although the Quartets style is rooted in straight-ahead jazz, their concerts reveal an inherent ability to explore and play odd time signatures while naturally integrating the influences of funk, blues and world music." 7 pm each night -- $45

Friday:The Skatalites at The Linda
"The Skatalites are Jamaica's premier ska band since 1964 who backed artists like Bob Marley, Toots and The Maytals, Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe and most of the singers of the day." 8 pm -- $25 ahead / $30 day of

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